Re: F1 World Goals permanently disabled

No mate, just lose single player progress, any saved set ups and trophies.. all online purchases and f1 world progress is saved

I was able to make the Goals work again, BUT (read more about the 'but' below the pic)...

I had to DELETE MY LOCAL FILES + DEACTIVATE CLOUD SYNC (in my case, with Steam).

That was the only way it would work - as the pic above show, I did one race after that and the Goals seem to be counting (to unlock) again - I can only ASSUME it would unlock after those 5 races.

I made several other tests, including:

- deleting the local data only

- deactivating cloud sync only

- make a backup of all of my files and then put them back once the goals seem to be counting again

And none of these work.

The only way it worked was as described above (by deleting my local files AND deactivating cloud syncing)

BUT... (yep, there's another 'but')

When you delete your local files and deactivate cloud syncing, you lose:

- All career saves/progression

- All your custom car setups

- Your custom avatar (including appearance, clothes, player badge and custom vehicle liveries)

- All your cabinet trophies

- And for some reason your custom OSD if you don't use the default layout

So, before any tests (or deleting any files), make sure to have a BACKUP of the following folders:

GAME CONFIGS:

C:\Users\[your user name]\Documents\My Games\F1 23

GAME SAVES (Steam):

..\Steam\userdata\[your Steam account ID]\2108330

(for non-Steam players, the game saves should be in the ..My Games\F1 23 folder as well)

...

CONCLUSION:

The problem is somewhere in one of these files AND the communication between them and the cloud (EA servers), but I wasn't able to isolate the problematic file(s) and I also hope EA is not waiting for one of us (players/customers) to pinpoint the problem so they can fix it - meaning I hope they can both find and fix it (ASAP) themselves, of course..

Also, I don't know how easy or not it would be to solve this - or to do what I'm about to suggest - but it seems to be the best to do, at least for now, which is to make a patch (add to the next game patch) to NOT force the players to complete 5 races to unlock the Goals - meaning, the Goals should be ALWAYS unlocked for everyone, since the moment they install their games - hopefully this wouldn't lock people out at some point and it wouldn't 'hurt' the game in any ways either - I mean.. why are Goals locked for the first 5 races anyway? What's to 'gain' with that? And what would be the harm in letting them unlocked since the install?

At this point EA may as well leave the bug unpatched. It's too late.

I haven't bought the most recent Paddock Pass, and I haven't even played the game for weeks because this bug has shut down the one feature that convinced me to buy F1 23. I'd like to get my money back, but with so many hours pre-bug invested, that's probably more hassle than it's worth.

Instead I switched to iRacing. Money I would have spent on F1 23 went to iRacing.

Bye, I guess.

This issue is now "awaiting a Patch" according the Community-Raised issues thread, so (hopefully) expect to see a fix that works in 1,5 weeks time.

Someone ran out of patience. Meanwhile I'm still patient and I still play it just for Scenarios, Legendary parts, stickers and obtaining limited-time items.